Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 October 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

The Oireachtas and the European Union: Discussion

3:00 pm

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Thank you, Chairman. In regard to mandating, when we met delegates from the large Swedish European affairs committee earlier this year, we asked them on whose behalf they are operating when they issue a direction to their Minister - that is, on behalf of the European Union or on their own behalf. They did not answer that question. My conclusion was that they acted on their own behalf. They also made the point that they had a particular association with several other countries, all of which, it was noted, have a strong eurosceptic element. Will Dr. Barrett comment on those points?

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